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Article: The lopsided dream. (U.S. Olympic basketball 'Dream Team')
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- August 10, 1992
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At the Olympic Games, where the truest dreamers have been swallowed up by a sensation, the Dream Team represents reality as much as anything else, although it also represents Reebok, Nike and the United States. Commercialism and professionalism have attended the games for decades--for centuries, truth to tell--but never before have they carried the flag or the day, and the reality is a sensation.
Last week in Barcelona, idealism and sportsmanship broke ranks at a parade supposedly formed in their honor, enlisting as happy bit players to $45 million worth of fabulous basketball flesh. The groupies stumbled all over each other with felt-tip pens and pocket cameras ...